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Ernest Martinson
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Gov Walker does not have to push too hard to privatize Wisconsin’s land, water, and air. Land is lightly taxed allowing residual rent to be retained by the landlord. Water is underpriced to users throughout the state. Sometimes water is free as in the case of high capacity wells.Other natural resources are also free to privateers. Severance taxes are applied neither to iron ore nor frac sand. The air itself serves as a free carbon sink for free riders due to the lack of a carbon tax.

These politicians, like all American politicians "...deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," need to be removed before they are allowed to continue to abuse the rights of the people and nature this way for another week or month or year.

Sure the author of the Declaration of Independence (i.e., Jefferson) was an aged imperialist ("steal Cuba!), racist hypocrite ("human rights are enjoyed by all" -- except the descendants of Africans forced against their will into slavery)-- and he was the 3rd American president, by which I mean he was human, just like us.

Americans need to keep our ultimate strategy in focus: i.e., peace and justice -- regardless of the stench of total corruption we're smelling -- and exercise our right to withdraw consent to be governed by these people regardless of how often we've done it before.

You may not have specifically asked for fecal matter in your water, but the republicans overwhelmingly insist on it and, you know, majority rules -- even if secret proprietary technology counts your vote (actually, likely loses yours) and proclaims their is a mandate to put foul biological waste in your drinking water.

Some of us may object, but not Republicans. I imagine, just like the rest of the divisive extremist agenda, we will eventually get used to and maybe even decide we like to drink from a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation manure lagoon.

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"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.

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